Sunday, February 15, 2015

A few weeks back, I was at the LGS with nothing better to do than browse through their wall of Reaper blisters. I picked up a hefty pack with a Wyvern in it and said to myself..."What the hell."

I've been on a bit of a roll with large Reaper figs recently, and see no reason to stop now. So this week, I put it together.

While assembly was straightforward, the scenic base I decided on was not. The base was made from multiple layers of balsa wood, covered in cork, and then finished off with a lot of slate. Though it took some time to conceive and engineer, I was really happy with the result. Broken mountaintop...got it.

I glued everything together, puttied the wing joints and then primed everything.

Next came the obligatory floor wax layer with dark paint. Now everything was sealed, shaded and ready to go.

But what colors to use? I first thought about a black wyvern with golden accents. And while that would look pretty cool, I'd just painted a black figure (the Drow demon) a few weeks ago. So I went to my favourite color scheme site (paletton.com) and started playing with split complementary color schemes.

I finally settled on plum as the main color, with accents of deep green and bright yellow-green.

Once I had sprayed on the base colors, I realized that the deep green was not accenting the plum. They were more visually balanced than they should have been...not good. So, as it is, this color scheme is out of whack.

But it wasn't like I was going to re-spray at this point. I was going with it.

After some washes, highlight passes and detail painting work, here's how the wyvern ended up.

A colourful beast, reflecting it's fantasy origins.

And I was happy with how the base turned out. Now I need to get some more basing slate!

Sunday, February 8, 2015

This week was all about knocking a few role-playing monsters out. First, a Beholder/Eye Tyrant thing.

There are lots of different Beholder models from many different manufacturers. All with different sizes, number of eyes and so on. I'm not an Eye Tyrant ecology expert...so I'm not sure where this Reaper figure fits into the hierarchy. Nevertheless, the model was quite big...about twice as massive as a normal 28mm figure. The base was textured with greenstuff.

Looks like a need a floating skull for the adventure I'm running. Honestly, probably the easiest and quickest model I've ever painted! I also painted a couple of quick Wraiths at the same time. The one on the left is a Middle-earth Ringwraith from GW. The other one is an old Mithril miniature from Prince August in Europe.

Finally, a Drow elf.

Not a fan of this Reaper sculpt...the face is too small for my liking. Regardless, it painted up pretty fast.